Isis-Demeter 1st C. CE
"Then, at last, Ceres recovered her countenance and spirits,
And set garlands, woven from ears of corn, on her hair:
And the tardy fields delivered a copious harvest,
And the threshing-floor barely held the heaped sheaves."
-Ovid, Fasti: Book 4, April 12, The Games of Ceres
A bust of Demeter, here identified with the Egyptian Goddess Isis. Unknown Egyptian artist, 1st cent. CE. Now in the Louvre. Photo credit: Sailko. |
Source:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egitto,_busto_di_iside-demetra,_I_sec_ac..JPG
Quote:
https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/OvidFastiBkFour.php
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